How to File Taxes for the First Time

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Author's Note: How to File Taxes for the First Time

Like any child of the 80s, I learned most of life's important lessons from Cliff Huxtable. That includes the short course on money and responsibility that the "Cosby Show" dad gave Theo during one episode in which his son says he doesn't want to go to college – he just wants to live "like regular people." Old Cliff uses Monopoly money to show young Theo where all of the cash he earns is going to go. You know, to things like food, rent and TAXES. Just like Cliff says, "the government comes for the regular people first."